What happens when you invite artists into the algorithm? When creative technologists and composers aren’t just end users—but co-designers of the code itself?…
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What happens when you invite artists into the algorithm? When creative technologists and composers aren’t just end users—but co-designers of the code itself? Dr. Philippe Pasquier, professor at SFU’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology and director of the Metacreation Lab for Creative AI, lays it all out in this radiant riff on ethics, participation, and generative systems built for humans—not just outputs.
Philippe doesn’t talk about community—he builds it. Through deep collaborations with companies like Steinberg, Teenage Engineering, and Elias, and through open-source, co-designed tools for music and visual generation, the Meta Creation Lab is proving you don’t need to sacrifice artistic soul for machine smarts.
This isn’t extractive AI—it’s expressive AI. And it only works when we start with care.
In this video, Philippe shares:
How AI and creativity meet in the studio, the classroom, and the community.
Why participatory design is non-negotiable when building generative tools.
How SFU and the Meta Creation Lab are grounding AI innovation in collaboration, not competition.
What it means to engage with the growing Vancouver AI community as a living, learning, relational ecosystem.
This is meta-creation as mutual flourishing. Not “AI for artists,” but AI with artists, by artists, and because of artists.
Dive into the Meta Creation Lab: https://www.metacreation.net
Explore the Vancouver AI Community: https://lu.ma/vancouver-ai
Get involved with BC's grassroots AI movement: https://kriskrug.co/2025/02/16/bcs-ai-ecosystem-a-mycelial-network-of-creation/
Part of the BC + AI Ecosystem Archive—a living series documenting the real people, real practices, and radical pathways shaping British Columbia’s community-first AI future. No gatekeepers. Just creators, rebels, and researchers weaving tech into culture with intention.
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